7/VII

T[ovarisch] Stalin!

The doctors are apparently creating a legend which cannot be left without refutation. They were bewildered by a violent seizure on Friday1* and did something extremely stupid: they tried to forbid "political" visits (they themselves badly understood what this meant!!). I got extremely angry and blew them off. On Thursday2* I had Kamenev with me. A lively political conversation. Wonderful sleep, marvelous feeling. On Friday, paralysis. I demand you urgently, in order to have time to say, in case of aggravation of the disease. I manage to say everything in 15 min[ut] and on Sunday3* again a wonderful sleep. Only fools can blame it on political talk. If I am ever worried, it is because of the lack of timely and political talk. I hope you will realize this and dismiss the fool of the German professor and K°. About the plenum of the Central Committee, please come to tell me about it or send me one of the participants.

With communist [communist] farewell Lenin.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 25995 - autograph.

1* June 30, 1922.

2* June 29, 1922.

3* July 2, 1922.

1The regular plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) was held on August 2, 1922. There were six issues on the agenda: preparations for the party conference, reports of L.D.Trotsky on the Red Army, A.I.Rykov on economic meetings (ECOSO), T.V.Sapronov on the clergy, on D.B.Ryazanov and on circulating assets for industry and transport (see: RCCHIDNI, f. 17, op. 2, d. 80).